SOURCE: “The Women in Cane,” in College Language Association Journal, Vol. 14, No. 3, March, 1971, pp. 259-73.
In the following essay, Chase explores Toomer's complex portrayal of women in Cane, maintaining of his female characters that: “Perhaps they are all the same woman, archetypal woman, all wearing different faces, but each possessing an identifiable aspect of womanhood.”
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